Colburn Family History

English:: habitational name usually from Colburn in Catterick (North Yorkshire) named from Old English cōl ‘cool’ or col ‘coal’ + burna ‘stream’ (often confused with Old Norse brunnr ‘spring stream’) but sometimes perhaps from a minor place so named such as Coalburn in South Wingfield (Derbyshire) or Coldbourne in Bramley (Surrey).

from the Middle English personal name Colborn an Anglicized form of Old Norse Kolbiǫrn Kolbiorn from kol ‘coal’ + biǫrn ‘bear’.

variant of Colbran from the Middle English personal name Colbrand (Old Norse Kolbrandr Kolbrand from kol ‘coal’ + brandr ‘sword-blade firebrand’).

variant of Cowburn a habitational name from Cowburn in Kirkham (Lancashire).